a) Assigning farmers who are professionally engaged in organic methods in virgin lands all over India for medicinal plants cultivation.

b) The species are selected on the basis of natural flora and also with suggestions from experts regarding scope of introducing new varieties after soil testing.

c) After the selection, minimum number of saplings or seedlings will be freely distributed to farmers for assessing the growth rate.

d) After two months, enlisting the name of medicinal plants that can be commercially cultivated.

e) A detailed discussion with the farmer will be conducted to work out economic feasibility for getting convinced with or without MOU.

f) Periodical inspection once in a month is conducted to all the farms by AIARD representatives for assuring safe and quality farming.

g) Regular follow up to finalise harvesting time for the instructions regarding methods of harvesting. Post harvest management systems including packing as a commodity for transporting will also be suggested.

h) Sustainable harvesting techniques will be demonstrated for endangering species.

a) Developing strategies on scope of vriksha Ayurveda.

b) Medicinal herbs and trees focusing on properties and growth boosting.

c) Comparative analysis of cultivated plants and nurtured plants by vrikshayurveda practices using phytochemical methods to assess the difference in the phytoconstituents.

d) Established farmers who are actively participating with AIARD cultivation programmes at least more than 5 years are selected for the Vrikshayurveda project.

a) Doctors who are practising classical Ayurveda with minimum 5 years experience selected to give awareness regarding challenging clinical practices by enlisting prevalent diseases in their areas.

b) Helping the doctors for finding out appropriate formulations from Ayurvedic classics with orientation on referring systems in Sanskrit.

c) Sharing the experiences with debates in the group for concluding standard clinical protocol in challenging diseases to develop confidence.

d) Doctors can be availed genuine raw materials on requirement from our resources to equip them with genuine medicines.

The Research Institute is involved in the following works:

1) Identifying genuine medicinal plants of the classical formulations in the flora of India (literary and field research & documentation). We are maintaining an extensive library emphasizing Dravyaguna (Pharmacology in Ayurveda) and botany texts exclusively facilitated for PG and PhD scholars as free references.

2) Comparing of the genuine field samples with available substitutes and adulterants all across the country. (Lab oriented documentation).

3) Based on the above floral study, instead of procuring from the forests, we are cultivating the medicinal plants among the farmers residing in that flora. Either as cash crops or agro farming, exclusively in lands untouched by chemicals (virgin) in the form of pesticides, insecticides, fertilizers etc.(Research on cultivation practices and documentation). We extend the information regarding the traditional cultivation and post-harvest managements among the other farmers also.

4) Utilizing these herbs for serving the public by treating all the diseases where allopathic system does not have a permanent solution other than surgery (Clinical research and documentation). We aim to update the protocols of all classical

formulations regarding its efficacy on bio-chemical and immunological strategies. We also develop protocols to document Ayurvedic applications behind specific therapeutic indications by incorporating with Sanskrit and Ayurvedic subject experts.

5) These information’s are strictly being shared only with PG and PhD scholars to promote the Indian and Sri Lankan youths of Ayurveda, as these are the only countries that have accepted Ayurveda as a medical system by professional academy.

6) Conservation projects: We work with nature clubs of schools all across the country to plant endangering medicinal trees that are naturally seen in their flora by donating the saplings. Dr. Dileep Kumar give awareness classes (from 5th to 12th classes) to the members of the nature club regarding the importance of tree conservation and its importance in the environmental protection.

Dr. Dileep Kumar also has a lifetime ambition to plant 1, 50,000 deodar trees (Devdaru) in the Himalayas. The project has already started from the month of August 2009.

1) Give free awareness to Ayurveda institutions for commercial cultivation by giving strict time bound instructions.

2) To incorporate modern specialities like Nephrology, Diabetelogy, Oncology, Endocrinology and other debilitating illnesses by involving Ayurveda MD researchers so as to update the documentations used in the current strategies of modern medicine.

3) Maintaining a disciplined laboratory to document medicinal plants and also clinical documentation to rule out bio-chemical response of each formulation.

4) To give awareness among physicians to diagnose with tools from classical Ayurveda for selecting the appropriate formulations unlike today’s trend to imitate aimless and deformed interpretations of Modern Medicine.